SebastianFaulkshaswrittenmanynovels,includingDevilMayCa...
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Sebastian Faulks has written many novels, including Devil May Care, the latest James Bond book. This cutting comes from a very different kind of novel called Charlotte Gray. The setting is a transit (中轉) camp near Paris during the Second World War, where a group of people, including two small children, Andre and Jacob, await transport to take them to a concentration camp outside France. Although these people --- the ‘deportees’(被放逐者) of the cutting --- are not fully aware of this, they face certain death.
The Last Night
Andre was lying on the floor when a man came with postcards on which the deportees might write a final message. He advised them to leave them at the station or throw them from the train as camp orders forbade access to the post. Two or three pencils that had survived the camp’s search were passed round among the people in the room. Some wrote with weeping passion, some with great care, as though their safety, or at least the way in which they were remembered, depended upon their choice of words.
A woman came with a sandwich for each child to take on the journey. She also had a bucket of water, round which they gathered, holding out food cans they passed from one to another. One of the older boys hugged her in his gratitude, but the bucket was soon empty. When she was gone, there were only the small hours of the night to go through. Andre was lying on the straw, and Jacob leaned close to him for warmth.
Five buses had come in through the main entrance, and now stood trembling in the corner of the yard. At a long table ... the commandant of the camp himself sat with a list of names that another policeman was calling out in alphabetical order. Andre heard his name and moved with Jacob towards the bus. From the other side of the courtyard, from windows open on the dawn, a shower of food was thrown towards them by women crying and calling out their names.
Andre looked up, and in a chance angle of light he saw a woman’s face in which the eyes were fixed with terrible fierceness on a child beside him. Why did she stare as though she hated him? Then it came to Andre that she was not looking in hatred, but had kept her eyes so intensely open in order to fix the picture of her child in her mind. She was looking to remember, for ever....
63. What can we learn from the first part of the passage?
A. The background and the situation of World War II.
B. The author, the setting and the main characters.
C. The transit camp and the transportation in Paris.
D. The main idea and the names on the list.
64. Which of the following is true about the things going on in the transit camp?
A. The deportees were eager to leave their final messages.
B. A humble breakfast was served to children late that morning.
C. Andre happened to witness the deportees’ routine camp life.
D. The camp commandant stood by a long table calling the roll.
65. The woman stared at her child fiercely probably because __________.
A. she found her child was trembling and crying for food
B. she was driven mad by the life in the transit camp
C. she was filled with an attempt to escape from death
D. she thought she would never see her child any more
66. The author told the story in a(n) __________ tone.
A. casual B. desperate C. hatred D. innocent
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